Flitwick as DADA professor?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91032

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Carol: The alternative is Snape, but for whatever reason, DD is 
> withholding it from him. So instead we get a possessed Voldie slave, 
> an incompetent egotist, a werewolf (nothing against Lupin, but he 
> knows he presents a danger to the students and staff), a paranoid 
> auror who gets Imperio'd and replaced by a certifiably insane Death 
> Eater, and (hem, hem!) a power hungry, sadistic bureaucrat. So, as 
> Ron would say, what is Dumbledore playing at? Just give the job to 
> Flitwick, will you? At least for now?"
>

Jim Ferer wrote: 
> I think Dumbledore may be withholding the job from Snape for the same 
> reason you wouldn't give a recovering alcoholic a job as a bartender. 
> Besides, I don't know that the students would learn much under his 
> methods.
> 
> Flitwick could do it, surely, but he hasn't got the aggressive 
> instinct. He probably doesn't want it, anyway, and you'd have to get 
> a new Charms teachere.
> 
> Why not Moody and Lupin?  They can use Hogwarts as their base as well 
> or better than Grimwald Place; They're not underground anymore; and 
> they're close to Harry, who must be protected at all costs.  I think 
> I'd double up on the DADA curriculum anyway, and Lupin can teach the 
> younger students, Moody can teach the older ones the rough stuff, and 
> the NEWT level students will go to the Room of Requirement for 
> practice with Harry (openly, this time), which strengthens Harry and 
> cements his position as a leader.

Carol:
First, let me say that I've withdrawn my Flitwick as DADA argument
because I think (thanks to someone else's post) that he was only
proctoring the DADA exam and that someone else was going to grade it.
But rehiring Lupin is impossible now that the parents know he's a
werewolf, and Moody is too paranoid after having been locked in his
trunk for nine months. Dumbledore must have asked him and he must have
refused since the position was unfilled and the Ministry filled it
with Umbridge. I still say better Snape than Umbridge. He knows a lot
about DADA and would probably enjoy teaching it. After all, it was
Snape who taught the students "Expelliarmus!" in the duel with
Lockhart. I very much doubt that he would use an Unforgiveable Curse
on a student or teach them how to use one, which would be the only
reasons DD might fear hiring him. He has too much sense--and too much
to lose if he lost his position at Hogwarts.

I think DD has some other, very different, reason for withholding the
DADA post from Snape. For one thing, he'd never find another teacher
who knows as much about Potions. And he could just as excusably fear
that Snape would teach the Dark Arts via Potions as via DADA--poison a
student or teach his classes to make poisons to destroy or
incapacitate their enemies--or for that matter, to "stopper death."
But whatever we may think of Snape's teaching methods, his curriculum
is unobjectionable--unless, as Umbridge suggests, it's too "advanced,"
and I doubt very much that the parents or DD would agree with her.

Carol